Zou Heming laughed and said on the other end of the phone: "What's not clear about this! If necessary, you have to pay, not to mention that we are still in hot demand now! The result of my negotiation is almost this price, and the others
Conditions remain unchanged, annual salary increased by 100
20/20, 1.2 million US dollars a year! The only one that has agreed is the Sofoby family. They still want to struggle with the issue of annual salary, but they won’t be able to earn it for long. If you want to sign the other two
Family, then give me another week, we are not in a hurry!".
When Fang Yi heard what Zou Heming said, he knew the hidden meaning in the words. Zou Heming wanted him to go to Softby, which he had always cooperated with. When he thought of this, Fang Yi nodded directly and said: "That's Softby.
!".
Fang Yi doesn't have such a bad feeling about the world's number one photographer. In fact, it's Softby who should be dissatisfied, because it's Fang Yi and not Softby who has been asked to come to Taiwan.
"Well, that's how I replied to Walder. Now he will call me whenever he is free. He can call me two or three times a day. He can talk to me for a while by asking about the case and other things...
..." Zou Heming said to Fang Yi in a somewhat long-winded way.
Although he kept talking about Wald's several harassing calls a day, Fang Yi knew that in Zou Heming's heart, he was still very proud of having the manager of the world's number one auction house chasing after him and sending money. Many gallery owners
Both the manager and the manager feel a little complacent like this.
"Okay! Stop showing off. The whole circle knows your interests now!" Fang Yi opened his mouth and said cheerfully to his old friend on the other side of the phone: "You'd better pay good attention to the new people in China you want to sign.
Bar".
"I already know this question," Zou Heming said. After speaking, he paused and asked Fang Yi, "I heard that the three of you are planning to hold a painting competition in China?".
"You have a very good nose. You will know this is an idea!" Fang Yi joked to Zou Heming after hearing this.
Zou Heming laughed at himself: He's a businessman! Then he asked Fang Yi: "If you start quickly, do you start too slowly? I just want to ask if Chinese cultural companies can participate?".
Fang Yi started to push Tai Chi directly: "Don't ask me this question. You have to ask Zhang Xu and Li Lin. Besides, I'm afraid we won't know until the painting is taken."
"Okay, I'll call them later!" Zou Heming opened his mouth and said after hearing this.
Fang Yi hurriedly advised: "It's better to hit you tomorrow when you are busy. I'm afraid these two boys have fallen on the bed and just slept for a long time!".
The two chatted for a while about domestic matters before hanging up the phone. Fang Yi went online and picked up a pencil to draw some of the most memorable characters of the day, which were sketches and the like.
As soon as Zou Heming hung up the phone, he called Walder and told Walder about Fang Yi's decision to sign a contract with Sofoby.
Putting down the phone, Wald couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief, and then he put his thoughts back. Things turned out as he hoped, and Wald took out a small box of food from the drawer under his desk.
The cigar was lit step by step in a comfortable manner.
In the past few days, Softby's bad luck has been one after another. To be honest, Wald has never had a good time since he got to his current position. This made Wald feel that things are not normal during this period. And this mood is like
It's like being on a roller coaster. It's so exciting. Fang Yi is the one who brought him such a "hot water" life.
This annoying guy can't be offended now. Not only can he not be offended, but he must be punished. At least at this time, he has to be punished for a year or two. As for when the limelight is over, that will be another matter.
To be honest, Wald said in his heart that he had thousands of reasons not to have anything to do with Fang Yi, let alone spend 1.2 million a year to hire a staff member who could hardly be regarded as 'doing work'. But now even Softbi
If you don't hire them, Christen and Phipps will still play
I hired the money in hand. Sometimes it’s not about whether a person can do things. Sometimes people who don’t do things also have their uses, just like Fang Yi now. Not only Wald understands the importance of reputation to Sofoby now.
, competitors can also see clearly.
Since there seem to be only two options before Wald, either to obediently pay to hire Fang Yi, or to wait for the other two companies to hire Fang Yi and then use Fang Yi as a spear to attack Sophoby. This outcome is very likely to happen.
Nine Walder was going to follow Wright's footsteps and pack up his things and leave his current office.
Countless times when no one was around, Walder made countless moves in his mind to sign Fang Yi's other two film studios. Don't even use the most straightforward attacks, tell him directly or in the media.
If you publish news on the Internet, as long as you sign Fang Yi, you can introduce Fang Yi's "skills" in the news. Of course, the reference point for Fang Yi's skills is the incompetent Softby.
At that time, what will be Sofoby's impression in the public's eyes? An incompetent signing agency? Or an unscrupulous auctioneer? Anyway, it is definitely not what the old guys on the board of directors want to see.
This is what Walder doesn't want and doesn't want to see! So for Walder, hiring Fang Yi is not the most willing result for Walder, but it is the best result.
"It's better to finalize the matter as soon as possible first!" After Wald finished smoking his cigar, Wald subconsciously wanted to press the transponder on his desk, but when he stretched out his hand and couldn't find the transponder, he realized that he was still at home.
The sky is not bright yet, but there is a little light.
Walder stood up from the chair in his study room and looked at the weather outside his window. While looking at it, he smoked the cigar in his hand and stared at the sky outside the window in a trance. At this time, even Walder himself didn't know what he was thinking.
something.
As a scourge in the eyes of Walder and the Softby staff, Fang Yi's life was quite in line with the standard of a scourge. After finishing the painting, he fell asleep when it was time to go to bed, and he was on time in just over four hours.
When I woke up, at a time when most people were still having the sweetest sleep of the day, I ran for a bit of exercise.
When we arrived at the Tony Museum, it happened to be five minutes to half past eight, which is when the museum staff went to work.
At this time, Tony had just gotten off his car and saw Fang Yi standing at the entrance of the museum and immediately greeted him happily.
Tony tucked the bag he was carrying under his arm, then took off his gloves and stretched out his hand to Fang Yi: "You came here so early, I thought you said the opening time was right.
It’s time for the public launch!”
Fang Yi smiled after hearing this, and while holding hands with Tony, he thought to himself: I came to Italy, stayed in a hotel, and had no easel and almost nothing. I could only draw sketches, and I couldn't go to major museums. Don't hurry up.
Where can I go if my son comes over?
I thought so in my heart but said: "Come here early and take a look at the paintings in your museum! See if you have some particularly outstanding works in your collection!". These words can be described as typical duplicity.
However, Tony obviously had no interest in delving into this issue. With a smile on his face, he raised his hand and made a gesture of invitation. He led Fang Yi and walked towards the museum.
When they arrived at Tony's office, the female assistant helped them get something to drink. After taking a short break, Tony took Fang Yi and started to visit.
After a while, Fang Yi stood in front of the Madonna statue. This Madonna statue was the one Fang Yi saw for the first time in Mingzhu. It was said to be a work by Tintoretto, but in fact it was a forgery.
Fang Yi stood in front of the work and watched it for three or four minutes. Now Tony next to him felt a little strange and asked Fang Yi, "What's wrong?"
"It's nothing!" Fang Yi turned to look at Tony and said. This work used to be 99% similar to Fang Yi, but now he has improved to the master level. When he saw this work again, it was very similar.
The degree only dropped a little. It became 98%. This level of fraud really made Fang Yi not sure how to evaluate it.
As Fang Yi's own level gets higher and higher, the scores of imitations that he could distinguish in the past are getting lower and lower. For example, the similarity that he has seen is 95%, and now it is not even 80%.
It may not be possible, but this one has only dropped by one percent! How can Fang Yi not be surprised!
Now Fang Yi is looking for the different 2% on the entire painting. This 2% is very difficult to find, because the anonymous person who imitated the painting hardly left any signatures or marks. This painting
If Fang Yi hadn't clearly thought that the work was a forgery, Fang Yi would have believed it to be the original. The level of the forgery was just like the work he painted that was collected in the Louvre.
Some people think that imitating paintings is a criminal act that degrades one's status, but when Fang Yi looked at the Tintoretto imitation in front of him, he didn't feel the derogatory connotation of being a liar, but felt that he could imitate the work.
In this way, the imitator himself must not only be an artist but also a polymath and a knowledgeable person, because the person who imitates a work has to consider far more than the person who created it.
For example, if you want to imitate Leonardo da Vinci's works, you need to know that Da Vinci painted on walnut boards. If you want to obtain this wood, you can get it from old Renaissance furniture. You also need to know that when walnut wood is cut down
After the next fifty years, it will be impossible to tell the age.
You also know that Leonardo da Vinci painted in a way and manner. He always took the trouble to put eight layers of white background on the walnut board. Then he painted on the white background. You also need to know that Leonardo da Vinci sometimes used his left hand for some things.
Go and paint.
When you understand these things, it is not the end. You also need to know that in works that have been washed away by the long river of history, there will always be turtle cracks, which are spider web-like cracks that will form on oil paintings due to drying. You also need to know
The cracks carved in the imitation must be natural and uniform.
It is also important to know that in each crack and gap, the color from the edge to the bottom of the gap is different, because it not only has the deposition of time, but also some fine dust, etc.
You also need to know that works with historical traces will show green spots under ultraviolet light, and this kind of spots is considered impossible to forge by appraisers. In fact, as long as your skills are high enough, such spots are
It can be faked.
Dongfang Yi knew when he was forging these things that it was because he had a standard and a criterion of judgment in his mind. As long as he reached ninety-five or more, he would be fine. But how did the person who imitated this work come about?
How could it be done? Fang Yi had no way of finding it. It was precisely because of this that Fang Yi felt that the greatness of this work was not due to Tintoretto, but to this unknown imitator.
Seeing Fang Yi staring at this work, the more Tony said nothing, the more nervous he became. His eyes were on the painting and Fang Yi's face turned from time to time, very afraid that Fang Yi would reveal the works in his museum.
It's a forgery. The last time I was with Michael and the others, Fang Yi pointed out the mistakes in his own library. Now it would be really nice to do another one.
"Great work!" Fang Yi looked at this work for half an hour, and Tony was worried for more than 20 minutes. Only then did he hear Fang Yi say this. With this sentence, Tony felt relieved.
.
"It is indeed a great work!" Tony nodded and said, but he did not expect that what Fang Yi said about greatness was completely opposite to what Tony meant! (To be continued...)